jfm3

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by jfm3 16y ago
He's the Glen Beck of Appleism. :)
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by jfm3 16y ago
> It's really hard to come up with an actual macro use case that is not covered by modern Python and is still actually a good idea . sqlalchemy (and now mongoalchemy) is begging for macros. See CLSQL for an answer. Regular expressions
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by jfm3 16y ago
Okay, then I agree. Lispers use macros sparingly. But not having them at all pinches me terribly and I wish I could explain that better. Decorators don't help much with that pinching :) I mean the size of the industry that programmed com
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by jfm3 16y ago
> [...] in the general dev community, I don't think its clear that everyone is > bought into abstracting syntax too much. [...] This seems like you're saying "python is better because it does the things people like and doesn't do t
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by jfm3 16y ago
>I'm not sure what massive win for macros is left. From my point of view, not being able to define new syntax is as serious a limitation as not being able to define new functions, or data structures. There are a number of specific examp
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by jfm3 16y ago
Cute! And you're right! Scheme should be kept away from people who are prone to hurt themselves, as well as nail clippers and letter openers. Too dangerous! :)
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by jfm3 16y ago
I concur, but the value of such a law will not be apparent to anyone who doesn't feel the same way about transparent pants and unencrypted email. I should also add that I think it's evil to take advantage of the user ignorance of the issu
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by jfm3 16y ago
Decorators are ways to wrap function definitions with code that gets executed at the time the function is defined. Commonly they add stuff that happens every time the function is called. This is certainly something you can do with macros,
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by jfm3 16y ago
"Sometimes (f x) is [one of 6 things]" I don't mean to be the next snarky Lisp guy in the room, but I don't see the difference between reading (if (= a 3) ...) and thinking "that's a special form and a predicate", and reading
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by jfm3 16y ago
I wear pants. I have nothing to hide, particularly, but I don't want anyone but my wife and my doctor looking under them. Certainly not Eric Schmidt. The problem is that consequences of transparent pants are easy to understand, but the co
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by jfm3 16y ago
The Pythonist doth protest too much, methinks.
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by jfm3 16y ago
This video is great. It not only sums up the problem in the elegant terms of choice , but it also proposes starts at solutions in the elegant terms of working code . It made my day to watch this.
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The SEO Rapper(videogum.com)
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PhosphoCon 2011 Call for Papers(jfm3.org)
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by jfm3 16y ago
Is Scheme Hand-Compiled Into A Single Main Routine in C Faster than C? Fixed that title for you.
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by jfm3 16y ago
Article should be called "I should not have built my site in ASP.NET, but it's too late now, so I'm going to rationalize it as follows."
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by jfm3 16y ago
Not all top talent is young...
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by jfm3 16y ago
Precisely so, but that's not testing, it's repair. You've just rolled back from a production problem automatically. The user still saw the problem. Sorry if this seems rude. You're definitely way ahead of the game, but you're not address
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by jfm3 16y ago
"[...] 4.4 machine hours of automated tests to be exact. Over an hour of these tests are [...] Selenium. The rest of the time is [...] unit tests." Impressive. But this not production test, where you tee the actual input from users into th
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by jfm3 16y ago
You read about these "20 deploys a day" type situations, and it sounds great, and I'm sure it makes VCs all warm and creamy inside. But they're talking about small changes, and not all deploys are small. You can't incrementally change a d
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by jfm3 16y ago
jfm3 has responded to the furor over changes in his imaginary App Store and its policies that many believe could affect the popular Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader apps. The man claims he has not changed any of its guidelines given to develop
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by jfm3 16y ago
Those who do not understand Emacs are doomed to repeat it.
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by jfm3 16y ago
Homoiconicity means program and data have identical representation. But after you Lisp for a while the boundary blurs entirely. X-bar theory says that in all natural languages, Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases, and depending on who you read ot
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by jfm3 16y ago
Even early stabs at x-bar theory indicate that natural languages are highly homoiconic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory
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by jfm3 16y ago
Nice try blanco niño, but the following program runs fine. This doesn't detract from your overall point, but if you're trying to win over people who think the Boost macros are super awesome, this argument won't do it. #include <stdio.h
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by jfm3 16y ago
"Doing bong rips of salvia with Miley Cyrus" There's no excuse for downtime, but if there were, this would certainly be one.
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by jfm3 16y ago
Article should be titled "I like Org better than ReST".
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by jfm3 16y ago
I found that many of the reviews on glassdoor.com were seriously misguided or contained factual flaws. Not that I work at any of these places.
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by jfm3 16y ago
Lenovo X200. Fedora, emacs, chrome, and whatever gnome crap happens. 3.5' 2x4 LART. You're damn right I'm a sysadmin.
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by jfm3 16y ago
I think it is a good idea to move away from MySQL. That being said, this article is brim full of things that are factually wrong, and misinterpretations of what famous software authors have said about their software's licenses. Hackers need

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